Ghosts of Gondwana: The History of Life in New Zealand Fully Revised Edition by George Gibbs
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
Have you ever wondered why New Zealand's plants and animals are so different from those in other countries? Why kakapo is the only parrot in the world that cannot fly, or why the kiwi lives here and nowhere else? New Zealand is an extraordinary place, unique on earth, and the remarkable story of how and ...Show more
Field Guide to NZ Epiphytes, Vines & Mistletoes by Catherine L. Kirby
62.99 NZD
Category: NZ Field Guides
This is the first field guide dedicated to New Zealand's unique vascular epiphytes, vines and mistletoes. It provides information and photographs to assist the reader in identifying and understanding the diverse species that spend some or all of their lives living, or climbing on other plants.
Buller's Birds of New Zealand: The Complete Work of JG Keulemans by Geoff Norman
64.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
This accessible new edition of the award-winning classic Buller’s Birds of New Zealand includes the complete set of 95 artworks from both editions of A History of the Birds of New Zealand by Walter Buller and the subsequent supplement, specially photographed and reproduced in full colour using high qual ...Show more
Native Birds of New Zealand Poster
24.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
The image used in this poster is a cromolithograph (c. 1900) by William Shaw Diedrich Schmidt. The birds in Schmidt's work were based on the artwork of J.G Keulemans in Walter Buller's A History of the Birds of New Zealand. Reproduction posters are as close as possible to the paper sizes available with ...Show more
Birds of New Zealand: A Photographic Guide by Paul Scofield (Hosted by); Brent Stephenson
59.99 NZD
Category: NZ Field Guides | Reading Level: very good
A must-have guide for anyone interested in the extraordinary birds in New Zealand New Zealand's birdlife developed extraordinary diversity as a consequence of evolving on isolated islands without mammalian predators. For many years, habitat destruction brought on by humans posed a distinct threat to the ...Show more
Know Your New Zealand Insects and Spiders by John Early
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Field Guides | Series: Know Your Ser.
New Zealand's insects include some of the world's most remarkable, including the giant weta (one of the world's heaviest insects, dating from dinosaur days) and the world's longest weevil. The most iconic, important and most prominent species and groups feature in Know Your New Zealand Insects & Spi ...Show more
A Photographic Guide to Alpine Plants of New Zealand by Lawrie Metcalf
27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
This new addition to New Holland's popular pocket Photographic Guide series showcases the flowers that add so much to the attractions of walking in New Zealand's alpine zone. The ideal size for slipping into a backpack when tramping, it will appeal to walkers, nature lovers, tour guides and educators, a ...Show more
Know Your New Zealand Trees by Lawrie Metcalf
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand is home to a remarkalbe variety of trees, many of which occur nowhere else in the world. This beginner’s guide from the authoritative pen of Lawrie Metcalf forms an easy-to-grasp introduction to over 80 of New Zealand’s best-known trees. Though free of jargon and extraneous information, the ...Show more
A Photographic Guide to Seashells of New Zealand by Margaret Morley
27.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History | Reading Level: Very Good
The fifth New Zealand title in this internationally acclaimed series of compact, easy-to-use guides which is the ideal car glovebox, pocket or backpack reference for anyone with an interest in natural history. A Photographic Guide to New Zealand Seashells covers 165 common and a few rarer species of mol ...Show more
Powell's Native Animals of New Zealand by Brian Gill (ed)
26.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
The 4th edition of this classic work, first published in 1947. It provides a simple ready reference for identifying common New Zealand animals, ranging from the simplest invertebrates through to mammals. The text has been updated and Powell's illustrations have been rescanned from the originals, resulti ...Show more
New Zealand Flowers and Berries by Murdoch Riley & John Salmon
10.99 NZD
Category: NZ Natural History
New Zealand's flowering plants have evolved over 80 million years of isolation. Only in the last 1000 years or so has man impacted on the country's unique flora (and fauna), destroying stands of trees that existed in Gondwanaland times, as well as some of the flowering plants that began their colonisati ...Show more
Maori Bird Lore: An Introduction by Murdoch Riley
94.99 NZD
Category: Pūrākau / Māori Legends & Mythology
Beautifully illustrated and presented. A book that is a work of art. For many a century the pre-contact Maori developed a sophisticated structure of beliefs and customs about the birds of this land, this Aotearoa, this New Zealand. The basic myths and traditions came with the immigrants from legendary ...Show more